I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.